A Song of Shoe-maker, William.
From Kotzebue.
Though idlers riot, eat and drink,
And on soft downy pillows sink,
They are not free from woe:
For every man must have his share
Of trouble, and must know best where
The shoe does pinch his toe.
When rainy, wise men boots will wear,
But shoes put on when all is fair,
And take times as they go;
No man that ever wore a shoe
Will say if he be fair and true,
It never pinch'd his toe.
Balance and Columbian Repos., II-288, Sept. 6, 1803, Hudson, (N. Y.).
BENEVOLENCE.—A FABLE.
Imitated from the German of Gellert.
Port Folio, III-352, Oct. 29, 1803, Phila.
[Also in Amer. Universal Mag., I-28, Jan. 2, 1797, Phila.]
THE NOSEGAY.